# Export your browser passwords

Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari all export their saved passwords as a plain .csv file, and PrivacyNotes reads every one of them, one login per row. Safari wraps its .csv in a .zip, which you can drop in unopened.

## Export from Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, or Vivaldi

1. Open your browser's Settings and go to its passwords page. In Chrome that is "Passwords and autofill" > Google Password Manager > Settings; in Edge it is "Profiles > Passwords".
2. Find "Export passwords" and choose "Download file".
3. Confirm with your device password or your fingerprint. The file is normally called passwords.csv.

## Export from Firefox

1. Type about:logins in the address bar and press Enter.
2. Click the "..." button at the top right and choose "Export Logins...".
3. Confirm with your device password. The file is called logins.csv.

## Export from Safari

1. Choose File > "Export Browsing Data to File..." in the menu bar.
2. Switch off everything except Passwords, then click Export.
3. Confirm with Touch ID or your Mac password. Safari saves a .zip holding Passwords.csv, and you can drop that .zip in here as it is.
4. The Passwords app on macOS 15 and later exports the same rows through File > "Export All Passwords...", as a plain .csv.

## Leave only the Passwords switch on

The same window also exports your bookmarks, history and saved cards. Every switch you leave on writes another unencrypted file into the same archive, so turn them off. One exception is worth knowing: if you want your bookmarks here too, switch both on and drop the one .zip into both importers, because each reads only its own file out of it.

## What comes across

Every row becomes a login with its site, username and password, plus the note the browser stored with it. Firefox is the only one of the three that writes dates, so its logins keep the day you first saved them and the others arrive dated today. Safari is the only one that exports an authenticator key, and only when you kept your verification codes in Safari; when it does, the code keeps working here.

Browsers save a separate entry per sign-in page, so a big export often holds several rows for one company. They all import, and you can merge or delete them afterwards.

One honest limitation: a browser has no folders for passwords, so there is no structure to rebuild. Every login arrives tagged so you can pull the whole batch up in one click.

## A word of care: the file is your passwords in plain text

Nothing in the exported .csv is encrypted, whether or not it arrives inside a .zip. Anyone who opens it reads every password you have saved, so keep it on your own machine, import it, check that everything arrived, and then delete the file and empty the trash. Inside PrivacyNotes it is end-to-end encrypted again.

## Import into PrivacyNotes

1. Open PrivacyNotes and go to Settings > Import & Export.
2. Pick **Browser passwords** as the source.
3. Drop in the file you just exported, or click to browse.
4. Check what the preview says will arrive, then start the import.

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Source: https://privacynotes.app/help/import/browser-passwords